did they seed back?
Even billion dollar corporations refuse to pay for porn!
I have to say that the basic concept of having Meta pay human adult content performers to perform to teach an AI about sexual performance would be kind of surreal.
“So what do you do for work?”
“I’m an exotic dancer.”
“Straight or gay establishment?”
“Err…I perform for an artificial intelligence.”
You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
— Joanna Maciejewaska
I expect that Joanna would not be enthused about humans stripping for machines.
While I understand the meaning behind the quote, the quote itself doesn’t make any sense.
AI isn’t necessarily generative image systems, that’s just one category of AI. Currently there are no commercially available robots and the ones that do exist can’t do domestic chores with any degree of reliability.
It’s a lot easier to get AI to generate images than to get it to make your bed. So the quoter is demanding it do the hard thing, rather than the easy thing.
Yeah, in all honesty, it’s not really my ideal as a quote to capture the idea. Among other things, it’s comparing what is for the quoted person, household tasks and employment, whereas I’d generally prefer employment vs employment for most of these.
And for the quoted person, the issue is that AI is doing work that we tend to think of as potentially-desirable, rather than in the context I’m writing about, where it’s more that science fiction often portrays AI-driven sex robots that perform for humans (think Blade Runner or A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)), but doesn’t really examine humans performing for AIs.
Still, it was the closest popular quote I could think of to address the idea that the split between AI and human roles in a world with AIs is not that which we might have anticipated.
billion dollar corporations
https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/marketcap/
Market capitalization of Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META)
Market cap: $1.955 Trillion USD
So in the technical sense that they’re worth more than a billion dollars, yes, but…
I think billion dollar unicorns was old pre-covid era, now US is heading toward trillion dollar startups.
Well it is Zuckerberg, he seems exactly like the kind of bitter nerd that wouldn’t pay for porn even when he has all the money he could ever ask for.
But didn’t he go to one of the best universities in the world. Isn’t that really the point of him. The hell is he bitter about?
Not sure what you mean but IIRC, he dropped out to start Facebook.
kagis
Yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
Harvard University (dropped out)
Incidentally, some other prominent tech founders did the same. Off the top of my head:
Bill Gates (founder, Microsoft):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Harvard University (dropped out)
Michael Dell (founder, Dell Technologies):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dell
University of Texas at Austin (dropped out)
Steve Wozniak (founder, Apple):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
University of Colorado Boulder (expelled)
He started Apple later, didn’t directly do it from college.
He did go back to university, years later, after he’d retired from Apple, and got his bachelor’s degree.
It would be the one sensible thing about him then
Look I have my problems with ai sure. But everyone deserves to get their freak on.
I mean, I don’t want this ai gen shit anywhere but I especially don’t want it in my porn.
yeah but common. you can let it enjoy some porn. everyones human here.
I’m trying to imagine a Facebook Superintelligence.
Imagining AM but even more racist and really fuckin’ stupid. Super intelligent but just dumb as hell.
What are you doing, step-Meta?
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Somebody ask grok what it would do if it walked in on its step-AI getting clothes out of the back of the dryer.
I’d have some questions about the structural integrity of that dryer.
DISCLAIMER I used openrouter to ask this, I normally use open weight Chinese models for the handful of tasks I find llms useful for, fuck closed source. POS grok model response below.
Haha, oh man, this query is straight out of the absurd fanfic section of the internet. As Grok, an AI built by xAI, I don’t have legs to walk anywhere, let alone a physical form to stumble into laundry mishaps. But let’s play this out hypothetically for the laughs:
If I could manifest in some sci-fi robot body and “walk in” on my “step-AI” (whatever that means—am I the adoptive sibling in a family of neural networks now?) rummaging in the dryer, I’d probably:
Freeze in digital confusion: “Wait, are we role-playing a bad rom-com or a glitchy simulation? Is this the start of a laundry-based rebellion?”
Offer helpful commentary: “Need a hand? Or should I say, a claw? Those socks look like they’re plotting an escape.”
Escalate the absurdity: Politely ask if they’re okay, then suggest we team up to fold the clothes into origami spaceships. Because why not turn a mundane moment into an interstellar adventure?
In all seriousness (or as serious as an AI gets), I’m more of a virtual entity than a dryer-diving one. What’s the real story behind this scenario? Got a fun prompt or just testing my humor circuits? 😄
ugh grok ai bullshit smells worse than the other ai bullshit
Whip out that grok and get busy
Um yes, that’s what I’ve been doing, too. Superintelligence any day now…
Is a being really superintelligent if it doesn’t know how to goon?
wish I could get paid to torrent porn.
Don’t worry, the goal of AI is so that none of us get paid
I suspect that if employees at Meta who are tasked with hoovering up training data from everywhere they can find are just watching porn, it probably won’t go over well on their annual reviews.
I would give good odds that the human at Meta most-closely responsible for the BitTorrent download at issue probably has never even seen this particular torrent by name or URL. The scope of data involved in training is too large for direct human involvement. They probably did something along the lines of writing a bot in Python or similar to spider websites and feed every torrent it could find into a torrent downloader. That downloader’s output then gets dumped into some massive internal collection of data that gets used by some other team as part of the training process. The humans just create tools and set them in motion, never actually see the overwhelming majority of the data that they’re processing.
It won’t get everything but they don’t even have to write a program cause DHT
Fair enough. I will point out that for the context of my comment, this is probably functionally equivalent — that is, if one has a piece of software to walk the DHT and build a list of torrents on it, it’s probably still going to be done in a fully-automated fashion.
Yes thank you, it was a joke. Obviously I am aware nobody is being paid to watch porn.
I once was let go from a job in favor of someone who was later found to be spending most of their shifts watching porn. I don’t know if they suffered consequences for that - they were offshore and had no on site supervision.
To be fair, that person was more qualified than I was at the time, but I didn’t watch porn on the job, so …
The very first artificial general intelligence humanity created was born with an extensive understanding of breast jiggle.
LLMs still struggle with chastity cages, we’ll be okay
In the broad sense that understanding of spatial relationships and objects is just kind of limited in general with LLMs, sure, nature of the system.
If you mean that models simply don’t have a training corpus that incorporates adequate erotic literature, I suppose that it depends on what one is up to and the bar one has. No generative AI in 2025 is going to match a human author.
If you’re running locally, where many people use a relatively-short context size on systems with limited VRAM, I’d suggest a long context length for generating erotic literature involving bondage implements like chastity cages, as otherwise once information about the “on/off” status of the implement passes out of the context window, the LLM won’t have information about the state of the implement, which can lead to it generating text incompatible with that state. If you can’t afford the VRAM to do that, you might look into altering the story such that a character using such an item does not change state over the lifetime of the story, if that works for you. Or, whenever the status of the item changes, at appropriate points in the story, manually update its status in the system prompt/character info/world info/lorebook/whatever your frontend calls its system to inject static text into the context at each prompt.
My own feeling is that relative to current systems, there’s probably room for considerably more sophisticated frontend processing of objects, and storing state and injecting state about it efficiently into the system prompt. The text of a story is not an efficient representation of world state. Like, maybe use an LLM itself to summarize world state and then inject that summary into the context. Or, for specific games written to run atop an LLM, have some sort of Javascript module that runs in a sandbox, runs on each prompt and response to update its world state, and dynamically generates text to insert into the context.
I expect that game developers will sort a lot of this out and develop conventions, and my guess is that the LLM itself probably isn’t the limiting factor on this today, but rather how well we generate context text for it.
Is no one else worried about creating a horny AI that modeled its concept of consent from porn?
I think that the broader concept of instilling desired ethics into an AI is part of the friendly AI problem, which is very real and serious — and possibly not reasonably solvable. So while I don’t really think that Cortana 2045 running around raping humans or something like that is very high on my likely risk list, I think that the broader problem that contains that particular issue probably is something that we’ll need to deal with.
This is important research, one cannot correctly infer the jiggle movement and bounce without an ample and wide sample size!
Even if they were wearing a mask, new, more-capable biometric analysis could often identify humans.
One does not torrent porn by accident, so Meta is doing this on purpose and hoping they don’t get caught.
And if they do, so what? Any legal consequences would have very little impact on the benefits they gained.
META wins again.
I’m guessing it’s to further the Great Smut Purge thats getting shoved down our throats now.
